Women's Gain Is My Loss

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Joyce Glassman: Women have a much more zero some mentality when it comes to this issue. She says that women feel worse if another woman they know has a high status job and she doesn't. Glassman: It's her gain is my loss, or at least that's how it's perceived. The biggest episode of the show ever will be released in two weeks time. You can receive $100 off plus an extra 15% discount on quality of mind using the code M W 15.

Joyce Benenson is a lecturer of Human Evolutionary Biology at Harvard University whose research focuses on human social structures and sex differences in competition and cooperation.

We're often told that men are more competitive, more status-driven and more ruthless with rivals for potential mates. In reality doesn't seem to be true, the difference is that women's competition takes a more subtle, cynical and sophisticated route to drive away their competitors.

Expect to learn how women compete for status, why women exclude more than men, why women who promote an egalitarian world are less charitable than you might think, how you can interfere with a rivals' relationship without getting caught, the usefulness of gossip as an enforcement mechanism and much more...

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